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Get Familiar: 56 years ago today, Congolese liberator, Patrice Lumumba, was assassinated.
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It was a Hispanic freedom fighter Haiti bankrolled. That then turned his back on Haiti.
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They made the Congo like this and still find a way to blame the people. The devil is real and he walks among us disguised in pale skin.
"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him." And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer."
That ether on Rome.
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Simon bolivar of Venezuela?
During the early years of Fidel's Cuba they had no real relationship with Haiti because of Papa Doc/baby Doc(the U.S man). They start the relationship with Haiti when Aristide got in power
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The daughter of Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba has written to the King of Belgium calling for a return of her father's "relics",- an apparent reference to teeth taken from his body after his assassination in 1961:
Daughter of DR Congo hero demands Belgium return father's 'relics'
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Cacs aint shytThey took the man's teeth!
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The pres. of Schroder Capital Corp during the Computer TV years, Stephen Petschek, you guessed it, has a spooktacular bio! He married the daughter of Truman's War Secretary, Robert Patterson, a leading force behind the CIA's "inaugural covert operation"
After graduating from Harvard Law, Petschek went to Belgium as protégé of US ambassador, William A.M. Burden. There, a decade prior to investing in Paul Klein, Petschek worked with Burden to depose and "eliminate" Patrice Lumumba.
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen a single communist in all my time online talk about Pierre Mulele, a Pende and Congelese communist who fought during the Congo Crisis, so I’d just like to make a short little thread about him.
Mulele was the Minister of Education and Fine Arts under Lumumba’s government, and when the coup happened, he fled to Brazzavillie just like many other Lumumba supporters. But he didn’t stay their, eventually travelling to Cairo and then Beijing.
He received training on communist and Maoist ideology, people’s war, and guerilla warfare techniques. After his training, he went home to his Kwilu province in 1963, a province that had already revolted against the Belgians once before, in order to revolt against the government.
He began preparations for the revolt all throughout the latter half of 1963. He begun organizing with comrades of his. They got arms, soldiers, set up officiating committees, all that you would normally think from a group of people organizing for revolution.
The rebellion started in January of 1964. It was the first rebellion against the government since Tshombe had declared independence in Katanga, and it was certainly the first popular revolt. It also coincided with the Simba rebellion, but had a much stronger ideological character
By January 22nd, the rebellion had spread across half the region. Kasa-Vubu declared martial law, and the provincial assembly had set up a reward of 500,000 francs for the arrest of Mulele (a reward that would eventually reach 1 million). Nevertheless the rebellion grew.
Mulele’s army was short on arms because he didn’t want to rely on foreign aid (mostly because the USSR refused aid, instead sending it to the Simba rebellion in the east). But they made do. They executed some of the most detested local politians and attempted to set up local
governments that served the people. Eventually, they would take over the entire province. But the government reprisal was strong, especially under Mobutu’s army. The army was sent into Kwilu and anybody who followed Mulele or was thought to follow Mulele was massacred.
It is thought that around 100,000 people were killed by the army during this rebellion. Mulele’s forces, not well armed and dwindling because of government violence, couldn’t take the beating. Mulele eventually fled and the revolt was completely stamped out.
Mulele would return in 1968 when he was offered amnesty by Mobutu. Months after he returned, the army found him and horrifically tortured him. He was used as an example of what nobody should ever do again in the Republic of the Congo. He was seen as a genuine threat even in exile.
Mulele seems to be a little known figure among leftists outside of Africa, but he was huge in the rebellions against the Belgians and Congelese compradors. He specifically taught that the fight in the Congo was one against neo-colonialism and compradors. A very important figure.
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Mulele death was really cruel. But hs troops were cruel as well when they caught gov. soldiers, at least this is what I've heard from different people.
But there is onr thing I give gim credit for; he went to the country side, started a revolution basically from scratch with peasants and had the gov shook.
Globally, to shut down all the Lumubist rebellion in Congo, they had to bring in Cuban pilots, CIA operatives, european mercenaries to shut down the Lumumbist rebellion. Some of these cubans stayed in Congo after and married locals. I met one a long time ago.
He was a courageous guy. I don't share all his ideology (he was a maoist, or at lest he was very influenced by it and was trained in China), but he was guy ready to give his all for the cause and what he believed was good for the country. I can only salute that.
RIP.
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US military assistance to the Congolese government against the Mulele rebellion in 1964. One of these cowboys has a Vietnam badge on his hat.
Famous Western mercenary Major Mike Hoare training recruits at Kamina base in eastern Congo to eliminate a Mulele rebellion.
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